Gold trading means taking a position on the price of one troy ounce of gold, almost always through XAUUSD on a MetaTrader broker. The same ounce is also quoted as XAUAUD, XAUEUR and XAUGBP, and as COMEX futures, gold ETFs and physical bullion.
Five things decide gold results: position size (1.00 lot is 100 ounces, about 00 per of gold movement), the session traded, the US data calendar, total trading cost, and whether the trades are recorded well enough to be analysed.
This pillar links the full GoldHunts fundamentals cluster: how to trade gold, what moves the gold price, gold trading hours and sessions, gold volatility, gold lot sizes and contract specs, gold spreads and costs, whether gold trading is profitable, and gold trading for beginners.